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Actors Theatre of Louisville announces Actors Theatre Direct: on-demand content to ensure that theatre continues to thrive during COVID-19 quarantine.

A Simple Definition For Poetry by Terry Heick As an English teacher, my students would ask me 'what a poem is' and before I could get two sentences in their ...

Tweets are limited to 280 characters--plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.

Increasingly, books aren't thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.

A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology by Terry Heick Why do we need a framework? Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with ...

Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different--endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.

How can you teach Shakespeare to students accustomed to tiny screens with brief flashes of communication that instantly fade away?

Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic 'It Ain't Hard To Tell' With Harvard Poetry Professor by Terry Heick In April of 1994, Queens artist Nas released what would become one of ...

How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize their class binders--or if you have them keep one at ...

"Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective--the ...

How I Use Data To Motivate Students To Become Better Readers contributed by Kelley Spencer Adcock I have a lot in common with my struggling readers. I don't have trouble reading, ...

Owl Eyes: 12 Ways To Use Digital Text Annotation by TeachThought Staff Owl Eyes asked us to let us know about their (free) digital text annotation tool they created for ...